Cognitive complexity: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:38, 29 October 2013

Revision as of 14:34, 21 January 2014

Line 27:

Individuating a particular Inuit woman among one hundred people is simpler in a village in Congo rather than in an Inuit village.

Cognitive complexity is related to probability (see [[Simplicity theory]]): situationsituations are cognitively improbable if they are simpler to describe than to generate.

Human individuals attach two complexity values to events:

* description complexity (see above definition)